2005年英语专四真题解析

　　PART VI WRITING [45 MIN. ]

　　SECTION A COMPOSITION [35 MIN]

　　The students’ Union of your university is planning to hold an arts festival next semester, and they are inviting students to contribute their ideas and suggestions as to how it should be organized or what should be included.

　　Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

　　MY IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY ARTS FESTIVAL

　　You are to write in three parts.

　　In the first part, state specifically what your idea is.

　　In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your idea OR describe your idea.

　　In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

　　Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

　　SECTION B NOTE-WRITING [10 MIN]

　　Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:

　　You have got two tickets to a concert given by a famous pop band/orchestra. Write a note to your friend, Hilda/Mike, describing briefly what it is and inviting her/him to come with you.

　　Marks will be awarded for content ,organization, grammar and appropriateness.

　　2005年专四答案解析

　　PART I DICTATION

　　The Wrist Watch

　　It is generally believed that wrist watches are an exception to the normal sequence in the evolution of man’s jewelry. Reversing the usual order, they were first worn by women, and then adopted by men. In the old days, queens included wrist watches among their crown jewelry. Later, they were worn by Swiss workers and farmers. Until World War I, Americans associated the watch with fortune hunters. Then army officers discovered that the wrist watch was most practical for active combat. Race car drivers also loved to wear wrist watches, and pilots found them most useful while flying. Soon men dared to wear wrist watches without feeling self-conscious. By 1924, some 30 percent of man’s watches were worn on the wrist. Today, the figure is 90 percent. And they are now worn by both men and women for practical purposes rather than for decoration.

　　PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION

　　SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

　　1. 正确答案为D)。 当问到学业情况时，约翰逊先生回答说：“My best subject was history, and my second best was geography. However, my favorite subject was math…”，这里提及history, geography和 math,由此可以知他不是很擅长art(面试中应极力把自己擅长的学科告之出来)。材料中的arts subjects应理解成文科.

　　2. 正确答案为A)。由于他要从事计算机方面的工作，因此约翰逊先生认为“从事计算机方面的工作，逻辑思维能力比数学头脑更重要”(working with computers needs a logical mind rather than great skills in mathematics)，因此答案选A。

　　3. 正确答案为B)。 女士说“So, you would like to write material for computers, would you?” 约翰逊先生给予了肯定：“That’s what interests me most about computers, writing programs”。可见Mr. Johnson想做writing programs.做计算机程序员.

　　4. 正确答案为A)。女士在对话一开始就介绍了该项调查的目的：“I’m doing some research. It’s for a new magazine for people like you.”，即“是为了一本你这样读者的杂志”。

　　5. 正确答案为D)。 女士问他星期五是否外出，他回答说“I never go out on Fridays. I stay at home and watch television.”，由此可知答案选D。看见题干就应马上注意听Friday前后出现的信息.

　　6. 正确答案为B)。女士问他星期六做什么时，他的回答是：“On Saturdays, my wife and I always go sailing together.…and then in the evening we go out.”，由此可知两次都提到周六他们夫妇会出门，答案选B。

　　7. 正确答案为A)。 对话的最后女士问道：“What’s your surname?”，男士回答说：“Robertson”。由此可知男子提供的信息是surname.

　　8. 正确答案为C)。在对话中男士分别提及所需的项目：we need the following information: the invoice address, …, and then the pickup address, …and contact phone number当然，发件人的姓名是不可或缺的，故答案选C。

　　9. 正确答案为B)。 男士要求她不要封邮包时解释说：“You need to leave it open so that the driver can check the contents when he collects it. After the recent bombing, the airline said that we have to check all parcels.”由此可知,包括必须打开的原因是为了方便安全检查,而且还特别提到了最近的爆炸事件. 所以选B.

　　10. 正确答案为A)。 女士的最后一个问题是“How long will the parcel take to get to New York.”她问的当然是邮件到达纽约所需的时间，故答案选A。题目中的last inquiry和材料中的last question是同义词.

　　SECTION B PASSAGES

　　11. 正确答案为C)。播音员提醒乘客注意时说：“The train now standing at platform nine is the 10:48 train calling at all stations to Nanjing.”，由此可知，9号站台是去南京的列车。特别注意: 火车站的通知有重复的特点,这在后面的题目中也有所体现. 此处紧接着通过更正的方式重复了第九展台的火车是去往南京而非济南.

　　12. 正确答案为B)。 由于11:20去郑州的火车晚点15分钟，故11：35分离站的是开往郑州的火车。 I repeat, there will be a 15-minute delay with the Zhengzhou train on Platform 8. It will now leave at 11:35, not 11:20.

　　13. 正确答案为D)。播音员向乘客致歉并解释原因时说：“We apologize for customers, but due to a signal problem, the 11:28 train to Hangzhou from platform 15 has been cancelled.”由此可知，前往杭州的车次被取消。

　　14. 正确答案为B)。第二句话说：“It tells the story of men and women who, through the course of the major events of the last 150 years, have given assistance to victims of war and natural disasters.”，由此可知，该博物馆是为了纪念那些在战争和灾难中曾经帮助过受害者的人. 本题关键词是“have given assistance to victims of…”。

　　15. 正确答案为D)。材料中提到：“He had witnessed the heavy casualties at the Battle of San Marino in Italy four years earlier, at which 40,000 people were killed, wounded, or missing. He had seen the lack of medical services and great suffering of many of the wounded, who simply died from lack of care.”这几句话给出了他提出这一建议的原因。

　　16. 正确答案为B)。在提及Red Cross时说，“It has no religious significance.”，但是Red Crescent标志是来自于伊斯兰教，因此它有宗教意义。材料中先提到The symbol of the organization was originally just the Red Cross.排除C. 后又提到:the second symbol, the Red Crescent was adopted for use by national organizations in the Islamic world排除D. 后面Both are now official symbols排除A.

　　17. 正确答案为D)。 讲话中先讲拉拉队的起源，接着讲他们的表现，最后总结说：“Cheerleading is a sport in itself.”，拉拉队本身就是一项运动，因此也就具有竞争性。

　　18. 正确答案为B)。 材料中提到“They practice special shouts, dances, and athletic shows.”，由此可以总结出拉拉队要进行各种包括运动在内的表演，故答案选B。

　　19. 正确答案为A)。材料中中提到“The men throw the women high in the air and catch them. The team members climb on each other’s shoulders to make a human pyramid.”因此“…they may often suffer serious knee and wrist injuries and bloody noses”。因为这些抛接动作以及金字塔造型都是危险动作,所以他们才容易受伤,故选A. 材料和题目中都出现了suffer和injuries等词汇.所以要注意联系.

　　20. 正确答案为B)。材料中分别提及选项A ，D(The first cheerleader ever was a man. In 1898, Johnny Campbell jumped in front of the crowd)，和C(For the next 32 years, cheerleaders were men only Cheerleading is not just about cheering.)，由此可知答案为B。

　　SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTS

　　21. 正确答案为D)。 新闻开头就提到“The bodies of dozens of African immigrants discovered off the Italian coast last week might have been thrown overboard,…”由此可知，答案选D。

　　22. 正确答案为B)。文中一开始便提到这些人是African immigrants即来自非洲,后面又提到…all believed to come from Somalia…their boat had left Libya由此可以判断这些非法移民来自非洲.

　　23. 正确答案为B)。由新闻的第一句话“China has set its sight on putting three people into space for a week,是指在太空呆一周,而不是在一周内,故排除A. 又提到The Shenzhou VI is expected to blast off within the next two years排除C.

　　24. 正确答案为D)。 新闻中分别提到了the skies(Gigantic waves of flame that covered entire neighborhoods and filled the skies over Southern California with ash…提到了空中尽是灰烬)，houses和land房屋和土地也被毁(They were reported to have destroyed 800 homes and consumed about 120,000 hectares of land.)因此答案选D。

　　25. 正确答案为A)。新闻最后一句说：“Authorities said they were seeking two men in connection with the fires, which they believe were started deliberately.”。deliberately意为“故意地”=purposely

　　26. 正确答案为C)。. 由新闻中提及的“France remains the most popular destination, receiving more than 77 million visitors, followed by Spain,…”可知，法国是最受欢迎的旅游目的国,紧随其后的是西班牙,也就是说西班牙位列第二. 故选C.

　　27. 正确答案为B)。由新闻中提及的“By 2020, it will be tops, with predictions of 130 million visitors per year.”

　　28. 正确答案为D)。由新闻中提及的“According to a Xinhua report, over 16.6 million Chinese traveled abroad last year, up 37 percent from the previous year.”去年到海外旅游的中国人增加了百分之37。

　　29. 正确答案为C)。 新闻首句说：“Around 40 former military officers in Argentina have been arrested for possible extradition to Spain on human rights charges.”。也就是说他们会被引渡到西班牙去受审. extradition意为“引渡”，故答案为选项C。

　　30. 正确答案为A)。文中先提到on human rights charges即人权问题,又提到suspected of torture or murder所以可以知道这些人面临的是违反人权的指控.故选A.

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